Closely Quotes
733 quotes by 620 authors
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I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
— Francois-Henri Pinault
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Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time you work toward…
— Vernon Howard
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I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back…
— Ben Crenshaw
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One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is…
— Anne Lamott
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Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's…
— Philip Berrigan
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Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality
— Matthieu Ricard
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A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body,…
— Antonio Damasio
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The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition,…
— Unknown Author
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The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The…
— Laozi
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Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent…
— Nancy Gibbs
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When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely.…
— Fred Bear
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The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may…
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting to…
— Gordon Bethune
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Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
— Edmond Jabes
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Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.
— Adrian Lyne
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Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.
— Marc Ostrofsky
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Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
— Brian Ferneyhough
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I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
— Kate Smith
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I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act…
— Anne Grant
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The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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